Morning journal and courier., 1887-10-04
LIVING ON A DIME A DAY.
1t Can He Done, and Perhaps 1t
 would Be Better if More People Did


 would Be Better if More People Did
 It.
 From the Richmond (va) Dispatch
 At the gathering of scientists in Columbia college learned professor fascinated his su- perintellectual hearers by telling them that a laboring man "needs daily one fourth pound of proteine, one-fourth pound fat and pound of carbohydrates" to keep him well and strong. If the knowledge-seeking la
 borer goes to the store for his four ounces of
 proteine his experiment will scarcely in-
 crease his faith in the marketing knowledge
 of scientists. What the laborer and what
 most of us need more than technical essays
 on the Physiological and Fecundary Econo-
 my of Food'' is plain talk about sensible feeding and economical marketing.
 eHow to live and thrive on dime per day" may stand as the text for this talk. It certainly can be done, and though the exper- iment may be uninviting, it is certain that good health is nearer akin to the simplest diet than to the costliest.
 Now as to the lsboring man and his pro. teine Tell him that three fourths of his weight is water, and that to restore one day waste he has to take food, three fourths of which must be water, and the remainder flesh forming, heat giving and bone-making substances, and he will understand the case better. Give him table of foods, analysed to show just how much heat-giving, flesh
  food, and he will soon take as deep an inter est in what he eats because of it's worth to him as because of it's taste. When he finds out-as he can in half an hour-that only twenty-four parts in every one hundred of butchers meat count as flesh formers, the rest being water, but that from seventy-hve to ninety parts out of every one hundred in dried peas, beans, oat and wheat meals and cheese nutritious and only ten to twenty five parts waste water, he from that moment begins to use his common sense in feeding as he does in earning his living. The popular value of our diet; let us cultivate glorious ignorance of the purpose of foods and go in might and main for palate-ticklers and devil
 take the dyspepsia. Pity he doesn't
 Just fact or two as to sppetizers. The great Peninsular and Oriental (P. and O. steamship company employ East Indian
 steamers because they are stronger, healthier and stand the climate better than English men, and because-not being meat eaters their diet costs only six cents per day. There are miners in the English coal-pits, the hardest workers in the land, who have
 not eaten any kind of meat for years am
 not vegetarian, because banker after the heshpots, and their savory odors cast 8 spell over my innocent soul; yet I experimented for one whole year without tasting flesh or
 gravy in any form, and all the time my health was perfect and my weight increased
 The dock porters of Constantinople carry
 heavier burdens-two hundred and fifty
 pounds and upward-more easily than the laborers of England or America, yet their
 main diet is bread and t1gs, and they are tee total and vegetarian. The laborers in Spain live chiefly on bread and onions and are marvelously strong.
 The esh-and-blood superstition is quite